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Author

Mark Twain

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians...

Author	George Eliot
ISBN	0141439629

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?'

Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family....

Author	Sharon Olds
ISBN	0375712259

Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart...

Author

Adrienne Rich

"The strongest reason
for giving woman all the opportunities
for higher education, for the full
development of her forces of mind and body...
the most enlarged freedom of thought and action
a complete emancipation
from all the crippling influences of fear-
is the solitude...

Author	Bob Raczka
ISBN	1626722366

Who says words need to be concrete? This collection shapes poems in surprising and delightful ways.

Concrete poetry is a perennially popular poetic form because they are fun to look at. But by using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems...

Author	Donald Revell
ISBN	1882295765

Around the time he wrote the poems of Beautiful Shirt, Donald Revell's poetry began to turn from the sad, modernist poems of the magnificent books New Dark Ages and Erasures towards slimmer, sparer, sparser transcendental poetry that looked like Creeley but read like Thoreau on a French carousel....